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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South

by Stephanie M. H. Camp

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Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women.

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Canonical title: Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South
Original publication date: 2004

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Languages: English
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Published: 2004
Genres: Nonfiction, History, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 306.3
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